Random Facts

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Random Facts

Random Facts

I just had a really cool idea. Why don't we make a random list of facts? Here are the rules.

~DO NOT post numbered facts. Use a ~ sign.

~Make sure they are true.

~Don't post inappropriate facts.

~Be nice!

~MAKE THIS LAST FOREVER!!

I'll start.

If
you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also
have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make
change for a dollar.


The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

 


In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

 


The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.


In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and
use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that
someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

 

submitted by CaykeTheCook
(May 1, 2015 - 11:57 am)

back to the Chirp at Cricket

~ The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

~ I was in a Memorial Day parade today.

~ I went swimming in my friend's FREEZING cold pool today.

~ Dreamt is the only English word ending in "mt."

~ Montpelier VT is the only state capital without a McDonald's.

~ Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.

~ Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 

~ Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830's. 

submitted by Dragonrider
(May 25, 2015 - 9:06 pm)

Dragonroder, thank you for mentioning the VT one. I will never eat at McDonald's again.

submitted by Young Writer, Vt
(May 28, 2015 - 4:31 pm)
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.*
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.*
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.*
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.*
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.*
*Off the Internet
submitted by Young Writer
(May 28, 2015 - 4:42 pm)

OHMYGOODNESSSOHMYGOODNESS that Shakespeare one in CREEPY!!!!!!!

submitted by OtR
(May 31, 2015 - 5:38 am)

Albion Redwoods exist.  they can't photosynthesize and are are parasites.Money mouth

submitted by DerpMaster2000, age 10, Virginia
(May 31, 2015 - 5:00 pm)

Albino redwoods exsist!!!

They cannot photosynthesize, so they are parasites.

SealedCoolFoot in mouth

submitted by DerpMaster2000, age 10, Virginia
(May 31, 2015 - 4:54 pm)

(Probably the best random fact yet.)

~The longest thread on CaC is Red's welcome post. (BAM!! You weren't expecting THAT, were you?)

submitted by CaykeTheCook
(June 1, 2015 - 12:05 pm)

Cayke- that's a cool fact. I want to go find that thread now, but it will probably take me FOREVER to find it.

submitted by dragonrider
(June 1, 2015 - 6:14 pm)

~ There is a law in Quebec that margarine and butter must be different colors.

~  Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

~ Grapes explode in the microwave. 

submitted by Dragonrider
(June 8, 2015 - 8:13 pm)

Okay cool fact... cool fact.... I CAN'T REMEMBER THE ONE I HAD!

submitted by Wren, The tree outside
(June 10, 2015 - 11:25 am)

top.................top.....top...Top...Top!...TOP!...TOP TOP TOP!...TOPPITY TOP TOP TOP!!!!!!!!

~the letter Q is the only letter that isn't in any of the 50 state names.

~the three most used English words are "hello," "stop," and "taxi."

~Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. 

submitted by Dragonrider
(July 22, 2015 - 4:28 pm)

Speaking of Donald Duck, I heard that his comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

submitted by TARDISrider, age 982, Gallifray
(July 30, 2015 - 9:49 am)

I got all of mine online, so it  might not be accurate

~In Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.

~In Kansas, rabbits may not be shot in motorboats.

~Otters sleep holding hands.

~Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other.

~A traffic jam once lasted for 10 days.

~All the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck at 4:20. (I've never even heard of that movie but the fact is kind funny.)

~Two thirds of the people on earth have never seen snow.

~The average American drinks 600 sodas per year. (That's more sodas than days in a year!!)

~When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. (I didn't know snakes were born with two heads.) 

submitted by TARDISrider, age 982, Gallifray
(July 27, 2015 - 4:51 pm)

~ I don't drink 600 sodas a year, therefore, I am not an average American.

 

Neither do I nor many others, I presume. Which means that some people must drink even more than 600!

Admin

submitted by Dragonrider
(July 29, 2015 - 9:06 pm)

~ Nepal is the only country in the world without a square or rectangular flag.

~ You are at least fiftieth cousins with every person on Earth.

~ The newest country is South Sudan.

~ Every year, around 66,000 people are hospitalized due to cat bites.

~ And 360,000 people are hospitalized from dog bites. 

 

So watch your back. Your furry friend just might tern on you at any--

[Spyro] TYPO!!!1! 

submitted by hotairballoon
(July 31, 2015 - 8:39 am)
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